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Steam’s annual summer sale is upon us, and Arcen is once again participating with significant discounts on our entire library of games. These discounts will run the duration of the sale, ending the morning of June 30th: The Last Federation — 25% off AI War Collection, base game and all expansions — 60% off Bionic Dues…
When in doubt, use bigger warheads. AI War: Destroyer of Worlds, the sixth expansion pack for AI War: Fleet Command, focuses on two new optional features: Nomad Planets introduces dynamic topology to AI War for the first time, giving the player new challenges and opportunities beyond the previously-static wormhole network. One of the Nomads also…
This one is more bugfixes and balance work. Important stuff, especially the metal/energy-related changes, but just polish. What’s more than polish is the upcoming expansion, which we’ll announce with actual details tomorrow (Thursday, probably noonish eastern time). We’ll be doing a closed beta that will run until the expansion’s official release (alongside the 8.0 offficial…
This one is mainly an iteration on recently-in-progress stuff: – Hacking used to scale just with your hacking balance, but this could lead to hacks not getting more dangerous). Then it was changed to scale just with hacking-spent, but that got uncontrollably dangerous past a certain point no matter your hacking balance). So now it’s…
Version 1.024 is out, and while it is small it does have some really notable balance shifts in there. Specifically: – The way that research and property development dispatches are handled, and the way goons are used up with them, is now daily rather than monthly. This makes it a lot more fair to you…
This one takes a break from fixing The Bug (10/10 being winnable) so the changes already made in that direction can be evaluated. Instead the focus is on dealing with a couple other long-discussed requests: – The main combat turrets have been switched from a galaxy-wide-cap on MkI/II/III and a per-planet cap on MkV to…
Version 1.023 is finally out, and is a real whopper. Hardcore fans in particular should be very pleased. – A bunch of balance changes (in your favor) have been made to the various federation formation rules, so that in particular getting the federation started is not so hard. Actually this one should make everyone quite…
A brief note that you can now purchase Bionic Dues from the Humble Store. It’s available for $4.99 (50% off) for the first week and includes both a DRM-free copy and a Steam key. Discount ends June 3rd.
Version 1.022 is out, and is comparably minor. Still, a number of good things in here. – First of all, there’s some rules about alliance members that have been improved such that they will behave better towards one another. – Fixed a couple of display bugs with showing RCI impacts and with showing the defender…
